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Accidental Deletion of NTFS Permissions for Administrators on root of D:\

Hi there,

A right-royal stuff-up for a Friday afternoon!

I have accidentally deleted the "Full Control" permissions for the Administrators group at the root of D:\, which is a data drive on a SBS 2008 server.

I notice that the volume's Owner is SYSTEM, which has Full Control. Unfortunately, no other user or group has Full Control.

Is there any way I can write a script, scheduled to run as SYSTEM, that will re-add the permissions for the Administrators group?

Actually, the above question was just my train of thought. If you;ve got a better idea, bring it on!!!

Thanks n regs,
Bill.

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HaiFai

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Sushil Sonawane

To take the ownship of file folder or drive.

For Files:

takeown /f file_name /d y
icacls file_name /grant administrators:F

For Folders or Directories (will perform action recursively):

takeown /f directory_name /r /d y
icacls directory_name /grant administrators:F /t

FdpxAP-GJL

Hi,

You can use PSexec to run a script as System

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897553.aspx

You can use a script to set the permissions. you would need to create the script, but the cacls command is what you need.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/288292

Regards

Gordon

Rob Williams

As HaiFai stated, as a machine administrator you can simply go into advanced NTFS?Security permissions and take ownership of the drive/folder and subfolders and files., you can then reassign permissions.

FdpxAP-GJL

Any luck etting it sorted?

Jims_Computer_Services

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Thanks HaiFai. Your answer was a no-brainer. Shame I had no brain at the time but, understandably, I was in a bit of a flap!!!